Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-02

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Alaska-The Parrot Directory Meet
ing-Rich Strike ON the Josephine.
NEWS FROM ALASKA.
A letter to some friends in this city from
Chalmers Bonteen, who left about a month
ago for Alaska in company of W. 81. Jones
and e. Owen, was recently received. 1t is
dated from Juneau City. Alaska. and was
written on the 10th instant. The follow
ing is 81 extract from it: Weleft Portland
ON the steamer for juneau accompanied by
seventy Italians. who were forwarded from
San Francisco to work on the Tredwell
quartz mine and mill. The wages to be
them is 81 and board. We found the grub
on the steamer going up anything
get off the boat at Juneau. This
city contains a population of 400 whites
and about 1000 Indians, who are
AVERY RAD CLASS,
and it is about all one can do to keep them
out OF the cabins, coming in and corrupt
ing the morals of good Montana citizens.
Provisions here are exceedingly cheap, and
one can batch himself as cheap here as
anywhere. The city is ov rdone here, as it
is in many other places, by competition
among the merchants. We will not go to
Yukon this summer, as the Indians charge
$50 per 100 pounds to pack over the range.
The starting place for the Yukon is a place
called Chilcat, about 100 miles from this
city, and it is about 800 miles from Chill
cat, to where
THE PLACERs ARE LOCATED.
No news has been heard from the miners
in that locality for some time and much
anxiety is expressed about them. Every
thing has to be done by boat, and a man
without a BOAT in this country is like a
man without q horse on the plains. There
is only one barber shop in this city and the
owner has much more business than hecan
attend to. If some one would starts bath
house connected with a barber shop he
would make lots of money. This is not a
very good place for anyone who intends to
work for a living and / would advise no
one to come here unless with sufficient CAPT
tai to prospect and in case of not making a
strike to pay his way back to Gods coun-
try.
THE PARROT DIRECTORY e
The meeting OF the Parrot directory
spoken of in yesterdays MINER took place
at the Parrot smelter yesterday morning,
and lasted three hours. W. A. Clark, A.
M. Hotter, ]. E. Gaylord and Superinten-
dent Ben Tibbey were the only representa-
tives of the stock present. The condition
OF the mine and smelter were verbally re-
ported by Messrs. Tibbey and Gaylord and
the state OF affairs az exposed by them
declared satisfactory. No report was made
by either the treasurer or secretary, but
they will be made, it is expected, at an ad-
journed meeting next month at which Mr..
Tibbey's report will be reduced to writing
and at which it is safe to presume there
will be a larger attendance of the stock
holders. The old board was reelected and
consists of Messrs. Hauser, Hotter, Farrell.
Ferrill, Pine, Gaylord and Migeon.
E LEDGE ON THE
In running a crosscut from the 800 level
OF the Flag mine into the Josephine which
adjoins it, a ledge was encountered that is |
separate and distinct from that belonging
to either mine. though within the patented
ground Of the Josephine. It is twenty-five
feet wide as far as cut and far richer than
either of the two other mines. Drifts will
be run along the body to develop and as.
certain it's extent. James Talbot, of the
Silver Bow mill. owns the properties and is
highly elated over his new find.
Stopping continues on the 2OO-foot level
of the Ramsdell Parrot with fattering re-
suits. The ledge averages about five feet
in width and five men are employed there.
The men recently laid of at the Blue
Bird AVE again resumed work.
The Alice company is going to resume
work on the Blue Wing. Lumber has been
ordered and development will begin as soon
as a force can be put to work.